regulations and appropriations bills

The Obama administration issued a record number of newregulationson its way out the door in 2016, leaving an administrative state that sapped the economy of nearly $2 trillion a year. The government itself spent $63 billion in 2016 to administrate and enforce all of its own regulations. In addition the Obama administration implemented 43 new major rulesin 2015which increased annual regulatory costs by more than $22 billion, bringing the total annual costs of Obama Administration rules to an astonishing $100 billon-plus in just seven years. Also under President Obama the EPA published over 3,900 rules, averaging almost 500 annually, and amounting to over 33,000 new pages in the Federal Register. Lastly , it should be noted that the per capita federal spending isup sevenfoldsince 1941, largely due to excessive government regulations. So what will President Trump do to end the excessive government regulations?

*UPDATE: Trump is cutting federal regulations at a record pace saving taxpayers over $1.3 billion, double the goal set by the president .In fact President Trump issuedfewer than halfthe regulations in his first year than both his predecessors Obama and Geroge W Bush.

1/30/17: Trump signed an executive order requiring agencies to eliminate at least two rules for every new regulation adopted, and that they ensure net new regulatory costs of zero.

​9/28/17: President Trump has nearly erased Obama's entire legacy in just eight short months, overturning just about all of Obama's regulation laws. In fact President Trump signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any other U.S. President in history anda total of 55 in 2017. Many of which overturned most of President Obama's executive orders. In total the Trump ​administration has pulled or suspended 860 pending regulations at this point. Eliminating red tape is a top priority for President Trump, who has issued several executive orders dealing with regulations, including the elimination of two federal rules for every new one introduced.
Officials said the administration has gone further, eliminating 16 regulations for every new rule proposed. Trump halted $181 billion worth of Obama administration regulations on his first day in office by issuing a regulatory moratorium. Additionally, the administration and Congress have saved at least $60 billion in regulatory costs by rolling back Obama rules through the Congressional Review Act. ​

​​10/4/17: President Trump has issued 58% fewer major and costly regulations than former President Obama and slashed the Federal Register, the government's rule book, by 32%.

​1/01/18: The Trump administration has saved $645 million by cutting regulations and meeting its promise to eliminate two old rules for every new one.

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3/11/18: President Trump issued fewer than half the regulations in his first year than both his predecessors Obama and Geroge W Bush.

5/25/18: Trump signed three executive orders overhauling the federal bureaucracy, including an order that makes it easier to fire federal workers for misconduct. Under the new executive orders, estimated to save at least $100 million a year, unions will be charged rent for federal office space and will not be reimbursed for travel expenses or for hours spent appealing worker firings.The first executive order aims to strengthen accountability for federal employees and makes it easier to fire poor performers in the federal government. The second executive order creates a federal labor relations working group to analyze union contracts with the federal government. It also makes it harder to pay federal unions to appeal firings and to lobby Congress. The third executive order, focused on federal unions, is aimed at reducing waste and expenditures and requires federal employees to spend at least 75% of their time working on the job they were hired to do, as opposed to working on federal union work. It will also allow the federal government to start charging unions for office space in federal buildings.

9/6/18: President Trump did something that hasn’t happened in two decades — write and pass department spending bills instead of lumping everything into a massive package. The House and Senate are moving at a brisk pace to pass the appropriations bills, with the Senate leading, approving nine of 12. What’s more, the Trump administration has pushed through key priorities on wall and Pentagon spending, as well as curbing wasteful programs, though still ending up with a more expensive budget than they wanted by over $50 billion.